The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see
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The Marine Museum at Fall River is a cultural gem and contains a wealth of Fall River Maritime History especially Steam Ship and Titanic memorabilia. Discover the art, books, models and many treasures the Marine Museum holds. This is a must see resource for landlubbers and mariners alike.

Carol Gafford is a public librarian, family historian, amateur archivist and book savior. She is currently the youth services/outreach librarian at the Swansea Public Library and volunteers for several museum and historical societies including the Marine Museum at Fall River, the Swansea Historical Society and the Bristol Historical and Preservation society. She is the editor of Past Times, the Massachusetts Society of Genealogists and is always looking for a new project to take on.

It’s hard to get around it: Jordan Caron turned the game against the Bruins on Tuesday night.

Boston was up 1-0 on the Jets just over halfway through the third period when Caron was called for hooking Bryan Little.

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Blake Wheeler scored on the ensuing power play to tie it, then Evander Kane put Winnipeg ahead 57 seconds later. The Jets won 3-1, another third-period lead for the Bruins sent to ashes.

The kicker for Caron is that he could have let Little go. Zdeno Chara was providing support and the forward wasn’t getting by the captain.

It was the low point of what’s been a slumbering return to the lineup for the former first-round pick. In seven games with Boston, he has just one assist and has averaged 10:05 time on ice, with a total of just 11 attempted shots (five of them on goal).

The Bruins have wanted Caron to be a more aggressive offensive player. Listed at 6-foot-3 and 204 pounds, he’s capable of being a prototypical power forward, a miniature version of Milan Lucic or Nathan Horton.

But Caron has been playing like a pass-first point guard, rarely getting down low or using his body to his advantage.

To be fair, it hasn’t helped that the last five games he’s been on a defensive line with left wing Jay Pandolfo and center Rich Peverley, a necessity after Chris Kelly’s broken tibia. Numbers go down when you’re not with offensive-minded players, and Pandolfo in particular has made defense his No. 1 priority. To that point, despite not scoring, those three players are just a combined minus-1 in the last five games.

Coach Claude Julien admitted at the beginning of this current four-game road trip he’s not expecting much offensively from the group. But that’s no excuse for a lack of presence.

Caron brought that in his first game this season, beating Philadelphia’s Braydon Coburn to a loose puck in the corner and maintaining possession in the corner. He passed to Kelly in the slot for a one-timer goal.

It’s been the exception in an otherwise dull seven games for the 22-year-old Caron. He has 10 hits in the seven games, far off the pace of a thumper like Lucic (97 hits in 27 games) or even a less-skilled player like Ottawa’s Chris Neil (120 hits in 30 games).

When the scoring isn’t there, it’d be nice to see something tangible to prove that Caron was worthy of being a No. 25 overall pick four years ago. So far this season, that hasn’t happened.